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Marcia Hines is an American born singer who achieved great success in her adopted homeland of Australia.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she began singing as a child in her local church choir and by her teens was performing with groups in her local area. At the age of 16, she was discovered by Australian entrepreneur Harry M Miller who was visiting the United States in preparation for an Australian stage production of Hair.

She moved to Australia where Hair became a huge success, and then played Mary Magdalene in the production of Jesus Christ Superstar, which was also a great personal success for her.

A record contract followed and her first single released in 1974 was a cover version of James Taylor's Fire And Rain. It would be the first of her major hit singles, and during the late seventies she dominated the Australian music charts with such diverse recordings as a cover version of the Dusty Springfield song, I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself, The Rolling Stones Jumpin' Jack Flash and What I Did For Love from the Broadway musical A Chorus Line. Her biggest hit was the number one single You which was in turn covered in the United States by Rita Coolidge.

She continued to record and achieved a few more hits including the dance track Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees in the eighties and another cover version, Flashdance, What A Feeling which was originally recorded by Irene Cara and which was a hit for Hines in the late nineties.

She returned to the public eye after a period of inactivity, with her role as judge on the television show Australian Idol. Her blunt but compassionate treatment of the contestants, and her emotional reaction to their subsequent eliminations once again endeared her to the Australian public.

She is the mother of singer Deni Hines.